A. P. S[mith] to Frederick Douglass, June 7, 1856

"Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience, until he receive the early and bitter rain. Be ye also patient,for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

MR. EDITOR:—It seems to me that the reaping time must soon come. You and your faithful coadjutors, who, through long and wearisome years, have so earnestly and faithfully labored to disseminate Anti-Slavery truth, who have gone forth weeping, bearing the precious seed, will, I hope, soon gather a glorious harvest.— Sooner or later you must; for every thing that is good in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath, is in your favor. And, even the blinded tools of Slavery are working for you. Driven on by the lash of the Slave Power; even such creatures as Pierce and Douglas, and Brooks, and Jones, are industriously hoeing the thriving Abolition plants and applying nourishment to their roots. Even the dark and now swollen cloud of Slavery, that overhangs the Nation, pours down a nourishing rain upon Abolitionism while its thunderbolts are blasting all spurious Republicanism and false Democracy. Truly,

"God moves in a mysterious way,

His wonders to perform."

Out of evil, He educes good. He causes the wrath of man to praise Him. In the light of the blaze, kindled by the minions of the Slave Power in the Senate Chamber at Washington and upon the distant plains of Kansas, the Northern people are beginning to see the length and breadth, the height and depth, of the iniquity of the peculiarly hellish institution of the Southern States; and, I believe, the principles of the Abolition party never were better understood or more widely diffused than at the present time. This is what leads me to think that Slavery's days must soon be ended. Mr. Editor, allow me here to say a few words about the Republican party. I once hoped that it would do something to deliver the spoiled out the hand of the oppressor, and diffuse the blessings of Liberty over the land. I have been disappointed. Its Anti-Slavery is a miserable sham. It is painful to see how low it lies in the dust at the feet of the Slave power, and how much it resembles the Democratic party in everything relating to Slavery. In the documentsissued by its authority, we are told that Slavery has a Legal and Constitutional right in the States, and that it disclaims all intention of interfering with it. And, furthermore, that it intends to restore the Missouri Compromise, and thus put down agitation. Beautiful Anti-Slavery that [illegible] Anti-Slavery that any Legree

would gladly take to his bosom. Such is not the Anti-Slavery that is needed. The Southern States are full of it. The Radical Abolition party is the only party that proposes to release the suffering millions who are being crashed in the withering folds of that infernal anaconda—Slavery. Let not those who have clung to this party in darker days, desert it now to unite themselves to such a party as the Republican. Let us continue to labor for the Total Abolition of Slavery on every spot of earth that is cursed by its existance. In due season, we shall reap the reward of our labors, if we faint not. But I must close.

Yours, for the redemption of man,

A. P. S.

SADDLE RIVER, N. J., June 7, 1856.